Next steps

Want a presentation of the plan to your neighborhood association or community group? Contact Jay Higgins, Associate Transportation Planner at 503-618-2215 or Jay.Higgins@GreshamOregon.gov.

Project description

Status and Updates

Project Background

Project Documents

Contact

Status and Updates

The Active Transportation Plan has a new adoption schedule in 2018. It provides time for public comment on the draft plan and time for revisions before going to Planning Commission and City Council for adoption. Check back here for more Neighborhood Association meeting dates.

Neighborhood Coalition - Jan. 9

Planning Commission, draft intro - March 12

Transportation Subcommittee - April 5

Planning Commission - May 7

City Council, plan summary - June 12

City Council, resolution - July 17

Check out what we've been doing this past fall. Here are the example project cutsheets that show the types of bike infrastructure that are needed to create the Bike Routes for Everyone. Wonder what we might build in your neighborhood? The example cutsheets provide some ideas for the top ten priority routes.

Project Background

The Active Transportation Plan project is about working with the community to make walking and bicycling better in Gresham. (And skateboarding, using mobility devices and other ways to get around.) This is important so people have options about how they get to destinations they care about, such as healthful food, transit, jobs, services and schools.

Active transportation is any human-powered way to move through the city, such as walking or bicycling. Active transportation supports transit.

The Active Transportation Plan will guide future improvements, such as adding sidewalks, safer crosswalks, bike lanes, trails and paths. These improvement can make safer, more comfortable places to ride a bicycle and walk.

This is important because it provides people more choices about how to get around. It also makes a safer, more enjoyable trip for people who cannot drive or choose not to drive, including children, some older people and those who do not have access to cars.

Improved pedestrian and bicycle routes will help people get to places that are important to them, such as jobs, schools, parks, places of worship and places that offer healthful food. Plus, walking and biking is fun!

Project Documents

Current documents

In 2016 we asked people in Gresham where they need to get to and what challenges they face along the way. Based on that information, two maps were created: